FINDING TOWNS IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
by Richard Mathews richard@alumni.caltech.edu
Walter Koempel writes [ML 5:24] of his search for the town
Herrenbreitungen in Thuringia. There is a great resource for
finding such towns.
JewishGen maintains a search engine called ShtetlSeeker at
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/ While intended for Jewish
genealogy, it is great for anyone searching for towns in Central
and Eastern Europe.
If I go to the town search, enter Herrenbreitungen in Germany,
and specify Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex, I get these listings:
HERRENBREITUNGEN, Germany
latitude 50 45, longitude 10 20
Native name
179.3 miles SW of Berlin
KRUMFORDE, Germany
latitude 53 34, longitude 7 36
Native name
251.4 miles WNW of Berlin
If I go to distance search and search for all names within a few
miles of latitude 50 45 and longitude 10 20, the first few
entries give me other names for the town:
HERRENBREITUNGEN, Germany
latitude 50 45, longitude 10 20
Native name
0.0 miles N
KNOLLBACH, Germany
latitude 50 45, longitude 10 20
Native name
0.0 miles N
ALTENBREITUNGEN, Germany
latitude 50 46, longitude 10 20
Variant name
1.2 miles N
BREITUNGEN, Germany
latitude 50 46, longitude 10 20
Native name
1.2 miles N
Similarly, I can find candidates for most of the other towns
mentioned by Mr. Koempel.
